Seattle Public Schools to Parents: Psych! Now You Give Us $1 Billion?
While I was trying to make sense of this dishearteningly stupid story, Seattle Public Schools made a new announcement: "New proposal calls for return to current 2011-12 transportation plan and minimal...
View ArticleSeattle Public Library Now Lets You Check Out a Museum (Pass) for Free
The Seattle Public Library's new Museum Pass program lets you use your library card to check out free museum passes. You're allowed one pass per week to any participating museum, but you have to wait...
View ArticleAutism Education Basics, According to Temple Grandin
Move over, neurotypicals, Dr. Temple Grandin has some advice on the education of children with autism. If you have any exposure at all to autism literature, you'll have heard of Grandin. Or, for that...
View ArticleWhy Johnny Can’t Afford a Washington State College Degree
Many parents, looking at tuition costs that resemble home mortgages, might want to punch these experts in the mouth. Is it really so hard to imagine that students from Washington's less wealthy...
View ArticleThe Great Washington ShakeOut, an Earthquake Drill, Set for Thursday Morning
"If kids come home from school and talk about what they did at school today and parents talk about what they did--and they both participated in the ShakeOut--it can lead a great discussion about how...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind UW’s Lame Ranking in Campus Sex Health Survey
Now, to be sure, the survey is based on "the level of sexual health information and resources available to students on campus," not what the students are up to, so don't have a conniption, parents....
View ArticleWho Will be First to Sue Over Charter Schools Initiative 1240?
It could be you, if you can establish a legal standing for your dispute with the constitutionality of charter school initiative I-1240. It could be Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn....
View ArticleSeattle Documentary Filmmakers Talk About a Subject’s Suicide
“Being smart is difficult in my situation,” she says. She has moved to the city to attend school, and away from her parents and younger sister who live in a low-resource rural community. She now lives...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt Will Bury Us All, Spring 2013 Edition
But with Washington State facing a $1.3-billion budget deficit, the mood has changed substantially at the Capitol: “Conversations have gotten increasingly pessimistic,” Margaret Shepherd, director of...
View ArticleIsraeli Gay Youth Advocates Visit Capitol Hill’s Lambert House
The afternoon of March 13, a small group of Israelis were standing on the porch of Lambert House on Capitol Hill. One, a slightly graying, trim man, was Avner Dafni, the executive director of Israel...
View ArticleSeattle’s Meteorologist “Math Squad” Pushes for Better Math Textbooks
Mass & McDermott sounds like it could be an ABC odd-couple crime show from the '80s -- who didn't love the hijinks of Hardcastle & McCormick? -- but in fact the duo here are meteorologists...
View ArticleReminder: Seattle Graduates this Weekend
“There are no less than five college and university graduation ceremonies taking place in Seattle over the coming weekend, June 14 to 16,” says Seattle’s Department of Transportation. This will...
View ArticleGates Foundation to Chronicle of Higher Education: Our Critics are Idiots
As if to prove their point for them, Daniel Greenstein, the Foundation's director of postsecondary success, decided to reply with what is, in this context, a withering put-down: "The alternative —...
View ArticleReal Talk About Rafe Esquith’s “Real Talk for Real Teachers”
Here’s my advice: Put your students first; communicate with everyone involved in their success; ask for help when you need it; assume that everyone has the best intentions; and trust that wine and your...
View ArticleSeattle Public Library Has Got Your Netflix-Style Streaming Right Here
Seattle Public Library has gone, well, public with their streaming media partnership with Hoopla. The collection -- of movies, TV shows, albums, and audio books -- is Hoopla's, which is why I'm...
View ArticleStudent Loan Debt Will Bury Us All, Spring 2013 Edition
But with Washington State facing a $1.3-billion budget deficit, the mood has changed substantially at the Capitol: “Conversations have gotten increasingly pessimistic,” Margaret Shepherd, director of...
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